On Thursday 04 September 2008, Christian Mollekopf wrote: > Hopefully it works this time with the formatting... > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: plasma-devel@kde.org > > Subject: Re: GroupingTaskbar infos and questions > > Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:49:48 -0600 > > > > On Thursday 04 September 2008, christian mollekopf wrote: > > > Hi there,the groupingtaskmanager is in a fairly usable state now but > > > there are still some issues left where i could use some help.What is > > > working by now:-Everthing that the old taskmanger could do exept the > > > show only current screen functionality and startup tasks-Automatic > > > grouping by programname based on the name in > > > Taskmanager::Task::classClass()-Manual grouping, this creates on change > > > of the desktop a copy of the whole grouptree so all manually created > > > groups can get restored on return to the desktop (only if > > > showOnlyCurrentDesktop is enabled of course)-Automatic sorting by > > > alpha-Manual sortingWhere i still have to work on and need your help:-I > > > couldn't figure out how to find out if a window is on the current > > > screen because the containment isn't available in the lib. > > > > that's something belongs in the Applet (which has access to the > > containment()); libtaskmanager should simply advertise which screen a > > window is on (and probably take a flag to control whether it should care > > or not, since that's a relatively expensive operation) > > hmm... i thought so but this leads to some serious problems. > Since all the grouping gets done in the lib we can't just leave it up to > the visualization because we would end up with empty groups the lib created > because it has more tasks available than the visualization displays in the > end. The only two solutions i can think of are, we pass the containment > pointer to the lib which isn't nice but should at least work, or the > visualization has to update a screen variable in the lib. So i guess you > would prefer the latter
good points; yes, i agree that passing a screen parameter to the grouping strategy would be the way to go =) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
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